I have been trying to do research in Pacanow but have not been very successful. My Grandmother — Maryanna Kuc(z) is from Oblekon. I wrote to the parish there — Parafia p.w. Najswietszej Maryi Panny Krolowej Swiata but never received a reply. Perhaps they just couldn’t find any information.

My Grandmother: Maryanna Kuc(z)

Born: March 15, 1886

Baptized March 25, 1887

Immigrated to USA: September 1912

Father: Benedict Ku(z)

Mother’s first name: Marianna

She had a sister Eva (born 1895)

& a brother Jozef (born 1893) both came to America.

I think she had other siblings but have not been able to find any records from Poland at all i.e. Marriage of parents, birth or baptisms or death of her parents. I know her father was alive in 1912 when she came to America.

If you can help or shed any light on how I could obtain the information I am seeking, I would be extremely grateful.

Keep up the excellent work on your blog.

Thank you for any information in can provide and Thank you for your blog, I learn a lot from it.

Barbara

I had told Barbara that I would search the Swiniary indexes that I have pictures of to see if I could find anything for her. When I searched my indexes, I found that her family name is spelled most as she had it: Kucz, but I did find one example where the priest wrote Kuć. There was also another family Kuzon, but I do NOT feel like they are the same family as her Kucz/ Kuć. Since this was from the era 1829-1852 the records were in Polish. I found one marriage index in the Swiniary parish:

1836 Franciszek Kuć marries Maryanna Duponką [this is not your great-grandparents, but probably related]. 1836 was the only year that I had a marriage index picture.

1830-1840 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1841 Jozef Kucz birth record #23

1842 Maciej Kucz birth record #21

1843-1845 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1846-1849 I had no indexes (or pictures thereof)

1850 no Kucz/ Kuć births in the indexes.

1851 I had no indexes (or pictures thereof)

1852 Stanislaw Kucz birth record #28

I think I have seen Kuc in the surrounding parishes (Biechow & Pacanow).

First off, I checked the LDS website (FamilySearch.org). I wanted to see what microfilm they had. Your birthdates: 1886, 1893, 1895 are rather late (most LDS microfilm stop around 1884). Here is their inventory for Swiniary (you want “Akta urodzeń“, for births):

That is all the LDS (aka Mormons) have in their Family History Library that you can rent microfilm from. Next I checked the Polish National Archives via PRADZIAD . They did have books/microfilm for the date range you are seeking. Here is the contact info for the archive that has the data you seek. You would need to write them in Polish and they will write you back with their findings and instructions for wiring their bank the money they require (all in Polish).

I LOVED this article and all of these as an early morning cant sleep on computer looking up my Polish name in defeat as usual became THE major triumph of 99.999% of my genealogical research. Though spelt “Kuzan” the actual spelling of my lastname is KUZON of both grandparents-JAN KUZON and MARIANNA RZEPECKI. I hoped dearly the Kuzon family you mention is ours. Is there anyway for contact to further explore that? Jan from Swiniary and Marianna from Podwale. One child Jan Stefan or Stefan Jan stayed behind but my aunt Amelia and uncle Nicolaj (Uncle Mike) came over with my grandmother as my grandfather had come first. Nicolaj was born in Parchocin per his Declaration of Intent for citizenship and his Military Registration card (I believe-I will have to check that) Josef Rzepecki (in 1912) Marianna’s father ‘stayed behind’ on manifest in Podwale. I cannot wait to read all your posts and maybe learn to get behind our brickwall . There is another KUZON in another state from me who we have just started to attempt to work together on our family name. Don’t know if related yet though I’ve taken the Ancestry/23andme/and waiting on the FTDna results for the dna information. Thank you for being you. YEAH!!!!! Steven “Buz” Kuzan